Yes, let’s not figure out how to HELP these people, let’s just figure out how to get the hell rid of them…..because, you know, when people spend $100. for lunch they don’t want to have to see homeless people.

As homeless people were waking up on the stairwells and parks of Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, some of downtown’s most powerful business and community leaders were in a meeting fretting about how to get rid of them.

Downtown has blossomed in the past five years into a city center with more than a dozen new luxury condo towers, a robust retail and restaurant economy on Las Olas Boulevard, and a jampacked bar district on Southwest Second Street, but the urban core also attracts more homeless people than any other city in Broward County.

According to CEOs and others at Thursday’s power broker meeting, the homeless are overrunning downtown like never before.

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